Tag: autism

ink-and-daggers:

Some recent requests đź’«

All images are captioned at the bottom with “Respect the Stim”.

first picture shows an indeterminately-gendered person wearing a head wrap and a grey NASA t-shirt under an open blue button-down with brown pants and sneakers, clutching a toy lizard and smiling.  

Second picture shows five images of a female-bodied person, wearing an orange tank-top, blue shorts, a crocheted sleeveless brown overshirt, and yellow flats, as she spins in a circle and waves her hands at head-height.  In the first image she is making a dubious face, but by the fifth image she is smiling.

Third picture shows a female-bodied person with wild red hair flying up and covering her eyes, wearing a red long-sleeve shirt under a black tank top with black jeans and sneakers. She is dancing with one hip thrust out and her hands raised, smiling.

autisticprincessluna:

do other autistic ppl ever trace patterns w a part of their body as stimming?

this is most of my stimming, honestly.  either tracing or tensing my muscles in a rhythm.  i’ve often wondered how much of this is because i was encouraged not to make noise or be disruptive as a child and so i came up with ways to stim that were noticeable only to me.